Mary Tsukamoto, an ex-internee at an internment camp somewhere in the US. It refers to the feeling of being trapped inside an internment camp, imprisoned without a trial and for basically no reason. These camps detained hundreds of thousands of Japanese-Americans, many who were citizens, simply because they were Japanese. All of this was a result of Pearl Harbor, when the Japanese bombed a US naval base in Hawaii, which caused unrest against anyone with Japanese blood. Because of the bombing of Pearl…
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